27-year-old beauty lover from Copenhagen, Denmark - living in Los Angeles.
Educated makeup artist while living in Paris back in 2011 and since then she's had a lot of experience with beauty, both working within the fashion industry and as a freelance beauty expert. She has huge knowledge from the media world, after working as a beauty editor at Danish fashion magazine IN for the last two years.
“The idea with this universe is to inspire and enable knowledge to you readers about everything within the beauty world. When working so intensely with beauty and teaching others for that many years, you have so much stuff you wanna share all the time – because I simply cannot allow to keep it all to myself!”

SECRET CAMOUFLAGE

5. februar 2014

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By Anastasia Hess.

I’m really into the natural skin (I’m talking a foundation with light coverage or no foundation at all), but then you sometimes need a really good concealer for all the unfortunate places we don’t find so sexy. If you use the concealer wisely no one will tell it’s there and you look like you woke up like that! (quote Beyonce’)

My all-time favourite is one from Laura Mercier called Secret Camouflage; it’s matte, dry and comes in a pair of two colors so you have the freedom to mix them to get the right shade. It’s brilliant at covering spot and marks because it’s dry and densely pigmented. I like to use it with a small brush directly onto the spot and then blending the edges by dapping with my finger. I also like to really warm it up between my fingers and then dapping it lightly on moisturized skin on any red area to reduce the color in a super thin layer instead of using a foundation. I wouldn’t recommend it for under the eye area, it’s a bit too heavy for the delicate skin – use something lighter and more moisturizing for that.

Laura Mercier isn’t too easy to get a hold on in Denmark, I know of one place in Copenhagen, Helle Thorup Spa which is at Gothersgade 43. Or go online at http://www.vivamondo.dk/b/laura-mercier.html.

Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage concealer with a yellow- and a red-based color.